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November.

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y of the city streets had been
but added that “there's still a

Reshaur said that 4th Ave. had been plowed and he
questioned the frequent plowing of the Ogiow
subdivision.

He added that the city was prepared for snow this
carly, but the huge amount of snow has made plowing

“The magnitude of snowed slowed everything
down,” he said. “It’s one thing when you have six to eight
inches, but it's another thing when you have 16 inches. It
slows operations down.”

Jim Richards of the Castlegar Airport weather office
said the 38 centimetres of snow was not only a record for
the day, but a record 24-hour snowfall for the month of

The snowfall broke the old record of 20.4 cm
recorded on Nov. 1, 1977 and the 24-hour snowfall record
of 26.4 em set Nov. 15, 1973.

Devon, southwestern England.

Almost three-quarters of Britain's 180,000 miners
have been on strike since March over state Coal Board
plans to close 20 pits that are losing money with the
loss of 20,000 jobs.

POSTAL CONTRACT

OTTAWA (CP) — Canada Post Corp. reached a
tentative agreement with its full-time postal officials
Saturday, two days before it meets with a conciliator
in an effort to reach a contract with the
23,000-member Canadian Union of Postal Workers.

LOADED’GUN IN VEHICLE

Castlegar man charged

By CasNews Staff
A Castlegar man was one
of five hunters charged with
carrying loaded firearms in
motor vehicles as a result of
patrols and a roadblock set
up by the Castlegar Conser-
vation office last weekend.
George Nick Pereversoff of
Castlegar was charged with
carrying a gun with ammuni-
thon in the chamber ready to

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Office 365-3347

paying a $100 fine, said
Wayne Campbell, senior con-
servation officer.

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For information call
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Western Best Sellers Inc.

Home 365-3952

Kabatoff Gerrard have

28 in Nelson if the men fail to
pay $75 fines.

Edwin Allen Stratichuk of
Nelson is charged with hunt-

and/or six months in jail, and
the second calls for a max-
imum $1,000 and/or six
months in jail.

The charges have been laid
in connection with a six-point

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PROPOSAL

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Smecher said Thursday she hadn't
yet seen the Retzlaffs new proposal,
but “it doesn’t address the time or the
cost problem, so I don’t know where
that one came from.”

Retzlaff says the district receives
funding from the government based on
the mileage of last year’s bus routes.
She says because two kindergarten
students from Glade were transported
across the ferry to their homes at noon
last year, the board must have funds
for the route this year.

“They have already been paid as if
they were busing to Glade,” she said.
“That bus is covered for making this
distance this year.”

And if running the route “wasn't
excessive last year, it's hard to believe

it's excessive for one kid this year,”
said Retzlaff.

“She's correct by saying the board
for 1984 has funding covering the Glade
run,” said John Dascher, secretary-
treasurer for the district.

But Smecher said the funding is for
the district as a whole, and changes in
bus routes take up the money allocated

School Act says the board can provide
transportation assistance (80 cents per
pupil, 16 cents a kilometre per day) ifs
route is “impractical,” Smecher said.
‘The Retslaffs have refused this.

Dascher agreed that “if the board
decided to extend a route during the 84
calendar year, that would be in effect a
shortfall” in funding.

CROSSING

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He added that the city did not decide
when to repair the crossing.

“The whole schedule of the thing was
under CP's control.”

City’ engineer George Reshaur
echoed that statement.

In a prepared press release Reshaur
said, “It was intended that this work
would be completed earlier in the

season. However, the project was
carried out by CP Rail crews and
equipment, and scheduled by the com
pany.”

Meanwhile, motorists will simply
have to put up with the bump. Reshaur
said city crews have installed a “Slow,
road bump 30 km/h” sign at the
crossing and he urged motorists to
“slow down and exercise caution” when
crossing the tracks.

The with the A of Postal
Officials of Canada affects about 4,400 postal
employees who supervise mail processing, transpor
tation and delivery services, as well as the provision of
postal services to the public.

Details of the agreement were unavailable
pending a ratification vote expected within three
weeks, postal official said.

Stewart Cooke, Canada Post's executive vice-
president for personne! and labor relations, said the
agreement shows the Crown corporation's continuing

illi to and reach ag with its
unions and associations.

ISRAELI ATTACK

JERUSALEM (REUTER) — Four Israeli sol-
diers, including one young woman, are being held in
connection with the revenge attack on an Arab bus
Oct. in Jerusalem, Israeli police announced
Saturday night. (

One Arab passenger was killed and 10 others
wounded when an anti-tank rocket was fired at the bus
in reprisal for the shooting deaths of two young Israeli
hikers near Bethlehem.

An Arab suspect, whom police said confessed to
killing the hikers, is being held.

Police said Saturday the chief suspect in the bus
attack, an 18-year-old draftee living in Jerusalem,
would be charged with firing the rocket while the
other three were being held as his accomplices.

SHULTZ PROTESTS

NEW DELHI (AP) — U.S. State Secretary
George Shultz said he complained forcefully to Soviet
Premier Nikolai Tikhonov on Saturday about Soviet
news reports suggesting U.S. involvement in the
assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

He said Tikhonov denied the Soviets had made
such an accusation.

Shultz, heading U.S. delegation to Gandhi's
funeral, called the session a “good meeting” in which
both men agreed on the need for constructive relations
between the superpowers.

Shultz also took the opportunity to meet several
other foreign leaders, including Gandhi's son and
successor, Rajiv Gandhi, who voiced concern over U.S.
arms sales to Pakistan.

Shultz said he defended the arms supplies as a
counter to Soviet forces in Afghanistan and invited the
new Indian leader to visit Washington early next year.

Tories can't pay for
promises Johnston says

Notre Dame
founder dies

VICTORIA (CP) — Al

Centre in 1977 and was re

OTTAWA (CP) — Conser-
vative claims that the federal
treasury’s cupboard is bare
are “silly nonsense” to cam-
ouflage the fact that the
Tories can't afford to pay for

under

But, says Johnston — for.
merly Treasury Board pres.
ident and economic devel.
opment minister — “If you're
running a deficit, any sub-
stantial deficit, surely the
cupboard is bare

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“The cupboard, in effect,
has been bare ever since I've
been in government in 1980,
and I would suggest it's
probably been bare right
through the “70s,” he said on
CTV's Question Period,
taped in advance for broad
cast Sunday.

“I think the last surplus
was back around 1974, as |
recall.”

ANNOUNCING

New Ownership of
Dixie Lee South

Congratulations to

Bob & Helen Tchir

Also Peter and Marianne Borisenkoff would like
to thank ‘all their customers for their support
during their ownership of Dixie Lee South

Good Luck Bob & Helen!

The federal deficit forecast
in then-finance minister Marc
Lalonde's February budget
was $29.6 billion for fiscal
1984-85.

And Finance Department
figures released Thursday
show the deficit is nearing
$36 billion for this fiscal year

Johnston said the new fi
nance minister, who is to re
lease his first financial state
ment Thursday, will “be
berating the previous gov
ernment and alleging that
the cupboard was bare, and
all this kind of silly nonsense
in order to basically camou
flage the fact that during the
campaign « lot of promises
were made by the Tories
which simply eannot be fi
naneed with the country's
current finance position.”

HAPPY 40TH

Your Honour

Cartier, the founder of the
former Notre Dame college
in Nelson, has died at the age
of 70.

Cartier taught at the Notre
Dame school in Wilcox,
Sask., until 1949 when he
moved to the West Kootenay
town

He founded the Roman
Catholic college in Nelson in
1960 and was the first pres-
ident. The school became the
David Thompson University

cently closed by the pro
vineial government.

In 1960, Cartier became
the director of adult edu.
cation at the Langley school
board

He was then hired by the
ministry of education to ad
minister adult education pro-
grams for B.C.'s community
college networks. ,

Cartier, who died of cancer
Tuesday, retired to Victoria
11 years ago.

Drug seizure
in Vancouver

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Twenty-two people are to be
charged after tons of mari
juana, hashish and cocaine
were seized by RCMP de
tachments in the Vancouver
area and by police in the
United States.

A Surrey RCMP spokes
man said Saturday that about
18 of the 22 had already been
arrested. They face numer-
ous charges, including con
spiring to import the various
drugs and conspiring to traf
fie in them.

“We're looking for 22 peo

ple and some of them have

not been arrested yet, so we

can't give out too much in

formation,” said the police
esman.

Tons of marijuana and
hundreds of pounds of hash
and cocaine were seized in
the raid, which took place
simultaneously in parts of the

the wealthy rancher-politici-
an.

The jury also listened as
court reporters read back
pages of testimony in res-
ponse to a long series of
questions.

The jurors wanted to hear
some evidence given by Gary
Anderson, a former neighbor
of Thatcher's who was a
mainstay of the Crown's
presentation.

Thatcher, sitting Conser-
vative member of the pro-
vineial legislature and only
son of former Liberal pre-
mier Ross Thatcher, is
charged with the murder of
his former wife, JoAnn Wil
son.

Wilson, who was 43, was
found dead in the garage of
her Regina home Jan. 21,

MUSIC TO DANCE TO .. . African Heritage put on a
concert Friday night at Stanley Humphries Secondary
School. The group sings, chants, whistles and dances

to the accompaniment of traditional African drums,
xylophones, lyres and thumb pianos.
Costews Photo by Ryon Wilson

Thatcher, 46, sat attentive-
ly in the dock as the court
reporters read through the
evidence. He chewed idly on
a pen and occasionally ap-
peared to jot down a note.

Pope trial may
aid girl’s case

ROME (AP) — The judge
who investigated the at
tempted assassination of
Pope John Paul was quoted
Saturday as saying the com.
ing trial of seven defendants
may help answer questions
about the kidnapping of a
15-year-old girl in Rome last
June. ° FS

Judge Mario Martella, who
indicted three Bulgarians and
four Turks for complicity in
the May 13, 1981, wounding
of the Pope, was quoted by
Rome's La Repubblica news-
paper as Saying new devel
opments in the case of Em
anuela Orlandi may emerge
during trial.

“Someone could talk and
might help expand the in
vestigation,” he was quoted
as saying

In August, self-proclaimed
kidnappers sent a message to
the Italian news agency
ANSA demanding release of
the Pope’s Turkish assailant,
Mehmet Ali Agea, in return
for her freedom. Agea is ser-
ving a life term in an Italian
prison

The kidnappers have never
publicly furnished proof that
they have the girl or that she
is alive.

CITES CONNECTION

In court documents filed
Wednesday, Martella said
the “unknown perpetrators

(of the ) have at

Transplant debated

LOMA LINDA, CALIF. (AP) — The daring transplant
of a baboon’s heart has kept an infant known as Baby Fae
alive for nine days, but doctors say it's too early to declare
success and ethics experts ask if the infant was improperly
drafted into science’s war to save lives.

Dr. Antonio Gotto, president of the American Heart
Association, said the decision to transplant a baboon's heart
into the baby was probably the least risky of the choices
doctors faced in the waning moments of life for Fae, who was
born with an underdeveloped heart.

But Ronald Bayer, a bioethicist at The Hastings Centre,
a research institute in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., said the

times been connected to the
facts and people of this in-
dictment.” He did not elab-
orate.

The Orlandi girl, daughter
of a Vatican employee, dis-
appeared after a music lesson
in Rome on June 22," 1983.
The Pope repeatedly has ap-
pealed for her release.

Recent printed reports
have said that Agea — whose
statements formed the basis
for many of Martella’s con-
clusions — stopped co-opera.
ting with investigators after
he learned of the Orlandi
kidnapping. Officials have
refused to on those

t lant was the result of overeager physicians anxious to
complete an experiment.

“This child was drafted in the name of science,” he said.
“These scientists were geared up for a very important piece
of experimental research, and that's all that seemed
important to them.”

Gotto disagreed, citing the scarcity of human infant
heart donors. The only alternatives for Fae were a human
heart transplant, the baboon heart, an artificial heart or @
type- of experimental. cormective surgery that has been
performed in Boston and Philadelphia, he said. ~

“Assuming that a human heart was not available — and
we have to take the doctors’ word for that — the only
alternatives they had were experimental,” Gotto said.

Fae, whose real name has been kept secret, was hours
from death when a Loma Linda University Medica! Centre
team led by Dr. Leonard Bailey implanted the walnut-sized
baboon's heart in her chest Oct. 26.

The baby now the longest-lived survivor of an

reports.

No date has been set for
the trial of those indicted for
complicity in the assassina
tion attempt, but judicial
sources said they expect
court proceedings to start
early next year.

On the basis of a series of
messages from the purported
kidnappers, Italian newspa
pers have speculated that her
abductors may be linked to
Turkey's Grey Wolves, an
outlawed right-wing extrem
ist group.

Investigators says Agca
and Oral Celik, 25, another
Turk indicted as a second
gunman in the papal attack,
belonged to the Grey Wolves.

Gang member is
booked ‘for murder

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A
second member of a gang has
been arrested in the mis
taken-identity slayings of
four relatives of former foet-
ball star Kermit Alexander,
Police Chief Dary! Gates said
Saturday.

Horace Edwin Burns, 20, of
Los Angeles was arrested
Friday at his home and
booked for investigation of
murder, Gates said, adding
that more arrests were pos-
sible.

Burns and Tiequon Aund-
ray Cox are accused of mis
takenly killing the four, be-
lieving they were involved in
a cocaine deal that went
awry, Gates said.

“The Alexander family had
absolutely nothing to do with
this, no connection with the
people,” Gates told a news
conference. “They were in-
nocent vietims.”

The killers had mistaken
the Alexanders address for
an address on another street,
Gates said.

The killers, who were
members of the Rollings 608
gang, were trying to retaliate
against people who had at-
tacked them following the
drug deal, he said.

Two gunmen entered the
Alexanders’ South-Central
Los Angeles home on Aug. 31
and, without a word, began
firing, witnesses told police.

Slain were Ebora Alex
ander, 59; her daughter, Di
etria, 24, and grandchildren
Damani Garner, 13, and
Damon Bonner, 8

Cox, 18, pleaded not guilty
on Oct. 25 to four counts of
murder and a special cir.

L-to-h heart transpl suffered hypoplastic

left heart syndrome, a lethal birth defect in which the left
side of the heart is severely underdeveloped. She remained
in hospital in serious but stable condition on Saturday as
doctors gave her drugs to prevent her immure system from
rejecting the organ.

Bailey has said he performed the “highly experimental”
transplant to test the feasibility of using baboon hearts in
infants with such defects. Human infant heart donors are
rare, and he acknowledged last week that he didn't try to
find one.

Bayer argued that “no effort was made to see if there
was a more conventional alternative therapy available for
this child.”

“One could certainly defend the approach the physicians
have taken,” Gotto said in a telephone interview from
Houston, where he's chairman of internal medicine at
Methodist Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine in
addition to his heart association duties. “It was a very
reasonable one . . . to keep the child alive until a human heart
can be found for transplant. -

“If the child lives eight to 10 years with the beart
(before rejecting it), that would be a very important step. I
would be surprised if that were the case, but that would be a
major advance if you could use an animal heart to keep a
child alive that period of time.”

Bailey has refused to speculate about how long Baby
Fae might live, but has expressed hope that her immune
system will accept the baboon heart as a permanent
replacement

Gotto feels the procedure can be considered successful
even if the baboon heart functions only for weeks or months.

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